While most people think of history as something that happened before “their time,” many fail to understand that each one of us is in the process of watching history in the making and living it. Most fail to recognize the slow political and economic evolution to move the United States into a hemispheric free trade zone like that of the European Union.

Unlike the European Union’s integration which was given great fanfare in the media with Europeans entering into a contest to name the new combined currency, the integration of the United States with the other countries of this hemisphere is subject to a major media blackout....................